By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World During both world wars, Victory Gardens were a staple throughout the United States, found everywhere from private residences to public...
Category - Environment
Wake Up World’s articles on environmental issues and humanity’s relationship with our Mother Earth.
Genetically Modified Crops: The Trouble Is In The Soil
By Vanessa Caldarelli Guest Writer for Wake Up World One of the most detrimental issues about GM agriculture is the effect it has on our environment, specifically our soil and water. The...
Plastic Waste in the Ocean Will Outnumber Fish by 2050
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World A dump truck full of plastic is unloaded into the sea every minute, and experts say the situation is growing worse, with plastic...
Actor Mark Ruffalo Takes On Fossil Fuel Industry and Calls Out California Governor Jerry Brown
30th March 2016 By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World “The intense means of extraction, known as fracking, is believed to induce earthquakes, compound global warming...
When I Dream of a Planet in Recovery…
By Derrick Jensen B.Sc Guest writer for Wake Up World In the time after, the buffalo come home. At first only a few, shaking snow off their shoulders as they pass from mountain to plain...
Environmental Research Reveals Seattle Salmon are on Drugs — Thanks, Humans!
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World “From Prozac to caffeine to cholesterol medicine, from ibuprofen to bug spray, researchers found an alphabet soup of drugs and...
Scientific Consensus Statement Reveals Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide a Major Health Threat
By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World A newly published scientific consensus statement on Roundup herbicide reveals exposure to this ubiquitous toxicant is increasing and valid research...
Government Quietly Admits to Weather Modification Program
By Ryan Cristián Guest writer for Wake Up World As the United States moves farther away from the democracy it once pretended to be, the level of propaganda and indoctrination that the...
Synthetic Forests: The Enormous Risks of Genetically Engineered Trees
By Dr Joseph Mercola Guest Writer for Wake Up World If the biotech industry has its way, 184 million acres of native forests around the world will be bulldozed down and replaced with plantations of...
Leaving a Legacy of Destruction: Fracking Industry Threatens U.S. National Parks
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World As if it wasn’t bad enough to have fracking operations in our backyards — destroying local ecosystems, human health and...
Seed Bombs: A Creative (and Fun) Mission to Save the Bees and Butterflies
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World By now most are aware of the dire situation of the honeybee: dwindling numbers, collapsed colonies and dying hives — which endangers...
Getting Away with Ecocide — Chemical Reform Bill Could Grant Monsanto Legal Immunity for PCB Pollution
5th March 2016 By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Facing a surge in lawsuits across the United States, chemical giant Monsanto has been given a gift of sorts from the...